The Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Legislative Council in Ogun State has lifted the suspension of its Executive Chairman, Wasiu Lawal, following the intervention of the Deputy Governor, Noimot Salako-Oyedele, and other All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders.
The decision came after Lawal complied with the councillors’ demand to present the council’s income and expenditure report.
The Leader of the House, Mutairu Gbadamosi, announced during Friday’s plenary that the suspension was lifted in the interest of peace, stability, and development of the local government.
In a statement on Saturday, Gbadamosi explained that the earlier suspension of Lawal was in line with the council’s constitutional mandate and oversight responsibility to ensure transparency, accountability, and proper administrative conduct.
“You will recall that, in the exercise of our constitutional powers and in line with our oversight functions, this Honourable House took the decision to suspend the Executive Chairman, Alhaji Wasiu Lawal Adewale, over issues bordering on transparency, accountability, and administrative conduct,” Gbadamosi said.
However, he explained that respected party leaders, including the deputy governor, Salako-Oyedele; the member representing Ado-Odo/Ota Federal Constituency, Tunji Akinosi; the Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Sessan Fagbayi; Lai Taiwo; Kazeem Salako; and the APC LG chairman, J.J. Akeran, intervened in the crisis and helped reconcile both sides.
“Their fatherly and motherly guidance and mediation have brought about reconciliation and mutual understanding; and in view of the executive chairman’s compliance with one of our key resolutions, the presentation of the Income and Expenditure Account of the Local Government, this Honourable House has resolved to lift the suspension earlier placed on him,” he stated.
Following the resolution, the Acting Chairman, Abosede Balogun, officially handed over the affairs of the local government to Lawal in the presence of the party leaders who witnessed the event.
“This symbolic moment represents a return to normalcy and a renewed commitment to collective service,” Gbadamosi added.
He assured that the council would continue to uphold its constitutional mandate of ensuring accountability and good governance, working harmoniously with the executive, guided by transparency and the rule of law.
